As we mentioned in a previous article, Red Hat advocate Greg DeKoenigsberg claimed that due to the much larger amount of code it's contributed, Red Hat is a better open source citizen than Canonical, adding, "Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization." A Computerworld blog retorts that that's no insult; and that marketing Linux could be just as important to the cause as contributing code. Updated

gs.statcounter is irrelevant. Like most other statcounters it is highly unreliable. The stats for China is enough to undermine its credibility.

Actually, it is well known that WinXP (many copies of which are pirated) rules the roost in China, especially when those Internet cafes are taken into account. All in all, those OS usage stats are hardly surprising.